Classical Nucleation Theory in Multicomponent Systems

Classical Nucleation Theory in Multicomponent Systems

المؤلف
Hanna Vehkamäki
سنة النشر
2006
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Chemistry and Materials Science

Nucleation is the initial step of every first-order phase transition, and most phase transitions encountered both in everyday life and industrial processes are of the first-order. Using an elegant classical theory based on thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a fully detailed picture of multi-component nucleation. As many of the issues concerning multi-component nucleation theory have been solved during the last 10-15 years, it also thoroughly integrates both fundamental theory with recent advances presented in the literature. It covered are: the basic relevant thermodynamics and statistical physics; modelling a molecular cluster as a spherical liquid droplet; predicting the size and composition of the nucleating critical clusters; kinetic models for cluster growth and decay; calculating nucleation rates; and a full derivation and application of nucleation theorems that can be used to extract microscopic cluster properties from nucleation rate measurements.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Chemistry and Materials Science / Helium-Atom-Streuung / Nucleation / Phase Equilibrium / Phase Transitions / ReM / STEM / Thermodynamics / Phase Transition